Announcement of the second edition of Babel-Booksinitaly prize for translators, born last year thanks to the partnership between Babel – Festival of literature and translation held in Bellinzona (CH) -, Booksinitaly and Laboratorio Formentini per l’editoria, the Babel prize for translation becomes Babel-Booksinitaly prize. For further information (in Italian), please click here.

Radio3’s broadcast Fahrenheit listeners voted for the 2016 Book of the year: it’s Io sono con te by Melania Mazzucco; Simona Vinci’s La prima verità (Einaudi) is the top rated book by the reading groups linked to the broadcast.

Le serenate del ciclone by Romana Petri (Neri Pozza) has won the SuperMondello literary prize for fiction; for non-fiction, the prize has been awarded to Serena Vitale, for Il defunto odiava i pettegolezzi (Adelphi).